The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17
FARMS MUST MAKE MONEY
THE INTERSTATE CONVENTION TO
POINT OUT THE WAY.

GRADY Delivers CnaracterlStlo
Speech,
ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 16-The Interstate
Convention of the farmers met at DeGive's
Opera House at 10 o'clock this morning
There was a largo attendance and the dele
gates were from the best class Of farmers
The meeting was called TO order by Hon. j
7. Henderson, Commissioner of Agriculture
of Georgia.
Prayer was offered by Rev. Henry Clay
Morrison, pastor of the First Methodist
church.
A short address was made by Commits
ioner Henderson outlining the history of the
movement which resulted in the conven-
ton He asked for full discussion of the
various causes supposed to impede agri-
cultural progress, Among the subjects
mentioned were the credit system, guano, all
cotton, protective tariff, etc. At the conclu-
sion of Commissioner Henderson's remarks
Gov. Gordon was introduced as temporary
chairman. The Governor said that every
thoughtful patriot would hail the assem-
bling of the convention as u promise OF
good. The basis of agriculture was as
broad as the earth, and the success Of agri-
culture as important as the acres around it,
THE GUARDIAN OF ALL.
The interests of all are embraced in the
one science. Agriculture is the guardian of
every conceivable interest of society. De-
stroy agriculture, and nothing could live,
but agriculture could live though everything
else were dead. Lot agriculture die, and
commerce dies, ships rot at their whalves
the system of railroads becomes a silent
mockery, and an arid waste of desert
becomes the fittest representative OF the
most beautiful cities. Ii that be true, and
it is true, no words can sufficiently empha-
size the importance of convention of
farmers The plow is the forerunner of
civilization, and to find the cause which
brings depression is the commanding duty
of every lover of his country and his race.
If agriculture is not remunerative, there is
some mistake Where is itl The conven-
ton is here to find it. The trouble is not in
the Southern climate, soil or seasons. God
might have made all good land, but it did
not please Him to do SO. This a land of sun
light, without sunstroke, a little sun
Drowned perhaps, but greatly sun-blessed.
MR.. GRADY's SPEECH.
At the conclusion of his address the Gov
ernor introduced Henry w. Grady, saying
that as Conmanderin- Chief of the army
and navy of Georgia he had commanded
Mr. Grady to appear and welcome the far
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his happy and characteristic speeches.
"It was announced in yesterdays Consti-
tuition" said Mr. Grady, that | was to de-
liver this address of welcome, and as it is
my duty to maintain the veracity of that
highly respected newspaper, even to my
embarrassment and your discontinue, ! am
here. am astonished that Gov. Gordon, at
once my Governor and my friend,
in delivering welcome himself {,
added magisterial authority. do
not profess to an eloquence | never
hope to have and delegated the duty to me.
/ am astonished that he, foremost in every
charge for your promotion and last from
every breach in which your rights are threat
ened should have shirked this duty, and laid
it on the shoulders of his humble but loving
constituent, leaving me to march behind
the blazing path Of his eloquence much as "A
one armed woodchopper would follow the
track of South Georgia cyclone.
Laughter
NOT WELL UP ON AGRICULTURE.
''He has not done so because of my agri-
cultural knowledge. He knows that am
the only living man who knows less about
agriculture than he does. [lIaughter.l But
he knows that he can't beat me in being
glad to see you. [Applause.l AS mortal
man cannot gild the sunset, nor paint the
lily, so is there no heertier welcome than
when a Georgian says, My friend, l wei.
come you to my home
He eulogized the farmer as imam who
lives not by percentage but by creation I;
who strikes the earth on her spring breast
and fills himself from her fountains He
stands stalwart and independent in the sweat
of his brow, looking the sunshine into the
golden glory of his harvest and spreading
showers in the verdure of his fields, conscious
of the integrity of his labor that enriches
man, while he honors God" He then dis
cussed the cotton plant and its enormous
revenue to the South.
A TRIBUTE TO KING COTTON.
Of cotton he said: What a royal plant it
Isl The world waits in attendance ON its
growth. The shower that falls whispering
on its leaves is heard around its earth. The
sun that shines ON it is tempered by the
prayers of all the people. The frost that
chills it and the dew that descends
from the stars is noted, and
the tiespass of the little worm
on its green leaf is more TO England than
the advance Of the Russian army on her
Asian outposts. 1t is gold from the instant
it puts forth its tiny shoot. Its fibre is cur
rent in every bank, and when loosing its
fleeces to the sun it floats its snowy banner
that glorifes the field Of the humble farmer
that man is narshalled under a flag that
shall compel the allegiance OF the world and
wiring subsidy from every nation on earth" ="
ALWAYS FOR THE SOUTH.
He then stated that this income was fixed
and peculiar 20 the South, not hers this
year and her neighbor's the next, but hers
every year, the heritage that God gave this
people forever aa their own when He arched
our skies, established our mountains, girt
IFS about with ocean, looscd the breeztss,
tempered the sunshine and measured the
rain, ours and our children'5 forever-as
princey talent as ever came from His
hand 70 mortal stewardship
Mr.. Grady then said: "lf this enormous
revenue Of S40J, ,001, 900 per annum could be
kept at horne. and the supplies that we eat
were raised on our farms, and the articles
we buy Of the North were manufactured in
our cities, IN ten years the cotton States
would be the richest section Of the globe.
TIKI CITIES DOING THEIR PART
He then showed that the cities were doing
their part in keeping at home this enormous
revenue. He said: There are 80, 900 M.
tisans at work in the South to-day that
were not here In 1880, and this does not in
clude the thousands that are build
ing new enterprises. We planufac-
tured last year, S2l3,000, 900
worth of articles that six years ago we
bought from the North or West. ia the
six years following the cotton exposition,
1f3 new cotton mills have been built ia the
South, starting 100000 new spindies. The
South Is witnessing to-day AN industrial
revolution for which history has no prece
dent Figures do not measure it, and